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I respectfuly disagree. Having those west feeds helps me to avoid sheduling conflicts. Especially on Sunday and Thurday nights when I have both tuners recording from 8 to 11.

At this point, it makes sense for the premiums to start scheduling with the DVR users in mind. They should be repeating their primetime premiers a few hours later in the wee hours of the morning. This would let west-coasters pick it up in primetime and allow DVR users (on both coasts) to pick up real-time viewing at a reasonable time. The primetime window is fairly small, so repeating it on the same channel would be somewhat easy.

This would eliminate the need for duplicate channels for each coast. The space used for the duplicate channels could be used for more programming, more than making up for the programs shifted out of the late night hours on the original channels. A few channels have drifted toward this way to handle their schedule for a while now. Outside of primetime, does anyone care if premium channel content is shifted for the west coast or east coast?

I respectfuly disagree. Having those west feeds helps me to avoid sheduling conflicts. Especially on Sunday and Thurday nights when I have both tuners recording from 8 to 11.

It seems that most cable channels already do reruns 3 hrs later. Between the two DVRs in my house, my wife and I have multiple times where there are more than 4 programs set to record at a single time. The DVR, via its priority settings grabs the next showing and records it.

I am not a premium subscriber, however, during the freeviews i do check out the guide and it is constantly full of reruns. You may not get the 8pm recording (unless its at the top of your priority list) but you'll get the 11pm or 2am recording. Unless your goal is to start watching at 8:30p and FF through commercials (which premiums don't have) I'm failing to see a problem here.

Two problems here:1. The 500 channels are reserved for Premium movie channels- the ones you pay extra for. FMC and TCM are in basic packahes and MGM, HDNew and (one would presume, Hallmark Movie Channel) are in the HD Extras pack. Why would they put them in with the premiums?

It would be nice if they did put them all together, for channel surfing purposes. Many times when looking for movies people only go to the 500's and forget about the other movie networks that are scattered around the channels. I know certain networks pay more for certain spots, but putting all of one type together makes it easier channel surfing.

I respectfuly disagree. Having those west feeds helps me to avoid sheduling conflicts. Especially on Sunday and Thurday nights when I have both tuners recording from 8 to 11.

It does help with scheduling conflicts a bit, but really almost all of the shows/movies are shown multiple times throughout the week on each channel anyway. So rather than recording a showing 3 hours later on the west feed you would probably just have to record it a day or so later on the east feed.

I wonder if they are adding more HBO and Cinemax channels (really hope they are) if they are going to raise the price for the premium packages, say from $15 to $19 for HBO and $12 to $15 for cinemax. If so would be hard to subscribe.

I wonder if they are adding more HBO and Cinemax channels (really hope they are) if they are going to raise the price for the premium packages, say from $15 to $19 for HBO and $12 to $15 for cinemax. If so would be hard to subscribe.

We just had a price increase so I don't think you will see another one for a while.

That and their current prices for HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/etc are already inline with what other providers charge even if they carry all the channels (D* and E* both charge $16 for HBO even though E* gets more channels and more in HD).

So now that movement has started, do we know for sure what will happen with our old recordings? Will they need to all be set again? For instance I'm recording the Showtime series Nurse Jackie and The United States of Tara. Will they update by themselves? What about certain movies?

So now that movement has started, do we know for sure what will happen with our old recordings? Will they need to all be set again? For instance I'm recording the Showtime series Nurse Jackie and The United States of Tara. Will they update by themselves? What about certain movies?

My series links are updating by themselves to the new channel numbers for Showtime recordings.